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- noun Plural form of
experientialist .
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Most of the rationalists and the experientialists were in universities, however, not churches, and they had little effect on religion in the pews.
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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While experientialists are correct that the individual must have some kind of encounter with God beyond that often referred to as "book knowledge", one begins to trod upon dangerous ground when the experience becomes the ultimate criteria for judgment by positing that those having more intense experiences are somehow more in touch with the cosmos as in the case of certain meditation cults.
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To experientialists, dogmas and doctrines are not that important (that itself actually a doctrine though) as these conceptual formulations are merely shadows or echoes of the deeper experience.
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